A better choice of words would have been: I don't have the context. :wink:
Language is power: it has the force to make and break friendships. Imperative "Just answer me" or even "Just answer the question" can in certain situations express with stong degree that one person is subservient to another (i.e., a police officer to a detainee, a lawyer to a witness, a mother to a child, a teacher to a student), and in other situations, say, when we are amongst friends or colleagues, tone of voice as well as context plays a major role in picking out the degree of its intended meaning. Given, however, that we are on-line, typing our words into a keyboard, intonantion is hard to pick out, so whether "Just answer me" is meant in a jocular way or in an imperative way is unknown to the readers. :wink: Moreover, some of the people who visit this site, are students of English and they pick up on phrases used in posts and use the phrases themselves. So, it'd be wrong I think if I didn't comment on usages that are potentially ambiguous, not to mention, if used, might get a student into hot-water, sort to speak.
Just thought you'd like to know. Language is power. :D  | 
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